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Crazy thing is gop still wouldve lost Bostock 5-4 even with Barrett on SCOTUS

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Metal marvelous voyeur
  09/20/20
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Metal marvelous voyeur
  09/21/20
I read that Republicans have appointed 14 of the last 18 jus...
Sapphire azn
  09/21/20
Planned Parenthood v Casey was decided by a court with 7 Rep...
Self-centered stage
  09/21/20
Mostly correct. Kennedy was considered a safe pick after Bor...
yapping patrolman
  09/21/20
So what is true is that Reagan (but not Bush I or II) specif...
yapping patrolman
  09/21/20
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Metal marvelous voyeur
  09/22/20
if you buy into the idea that Roberts wasn't strategically v...
Hyperventilating Jet-lagged Haunted Graveyard Karate
  09/22/20


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Date: September 20th, 2020 4:58 PM
Author: Metal marvelous voyeur



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Date: September 21st, 2020 9:31 AM
Author: Metal marvelous voyeur



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Date: September 21st, 2020 9:33 AM
Author: Sapphire azn

I read that Republicans have appointed 14 of the last 18 justices of the SC. o what a conservative legal revolution

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Date: September 21st, 2020 9:56 AM
Author: Self-centered stage

Planned Parenthood v Casey was decided by a court with 7 Republican appointees, and one of the Democrats was an original Roe dissenter. Kennedy, O’Connor, and Souter were all chosen with the explicit intent of overturning Roe and all of them flipped.

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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:06 AM
Author: yapping patrolman

Mostly correct. Kennedy was considered a safe pick after Bork (and then Douglas Ginsberg) went down in flames and nobody wanted another tough confirmation fight. Everybody suspected he might be a moderate and nobody pretended to know how he would vote on reversing Roe.

O'Connor was picked SPECIFICALLY because she was a woman in keeping with one of Reagan's campaign promises.

Reagan also famously promised to only appoint justices that would overturn Roe. That was the original "litmus test" for SCOTUS nominations, which George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush later disavowed. Nobody necessarily expected O'Connor to fulfill both criteria.

Both Souter and Thomas were stealth candidates. We got very lucky with one and very unlucky with the other.

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Date: September 21st, 2020 10:07 AM
Author: yapping patrolman

So what is true is that Reagan (but not Bush I or II) specifically campaigned on only appointing justices who would vote to overturn Roe, and only 1 out of 3 actually did.

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Date: September 22nd, 2020 12:27 AM
Author: Metal marvelous voyeur



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Date: September 22nd, 2020 12:30 AM
Author: Hyperventilating Jet-lagged Haunted Graveyard Karate

if you buy into the idea that Roberts wasn't strategically voting

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